You're nicked

Please could you tell me where the phrase "you're nicked" comes from?

It is, I think, a variant on the theme of 'you're pinched' or 'copped'.

'Nicked' also being slang for 'stolen' or 'taken'.

DFG

Does it mean "arrested", "jailed" or just trapped in a difficult situation (for example, when one obediently follows the orders of the superiors and a s result finds oneself in a difficult situation abandoned by those superiors on one's own)?